The Reverend Becca Stevens is an Episcopal priest serving as Chaplain at St Augustine’s at Vanderbilt University, and founder of Thistle Farms & Magdalene. Thistle Farms employs 40 residents and graduates of Magdalene, and houses a natural body care line, a paper and sewing studio and the Thistle Stop Café. Magdalene is the two-year residential […]
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“My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name. His mercy extends to those who fear him,
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[Partially adapted from Chapter 10 in Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things] I have a friend in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has spent the last decade and a half helping some of the world’s most vulnerable people. He was born and raised in what is one of
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Peter Greer is president and CEO of HOPE International, a global nonprofit focused on Christ-centered job creation, savings mobilization, and financial training. Peter coauthored the first faith-based book on microfinance, The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World Out of Poverty, and recently released The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good. Peter blogs at www.peterkgreer.com. Follow him on Twitter
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I recently shared a quote from G.K. Chesterton (the late British journalist) in a talk I was giving on community. Chesterton wrote, “The eagle knows no liberty, he only knows loneliness.” The eagle is the symbol of freedom and liberty. It is a truly American symbol. Yet in a country that is struggling with widespread
I was in Australia meeting with several Evangelical leaders in areas of justice a couple weeks back talking about The Justice Conference when someone asked me what my heart was in founding the conference. I wrestled for a way to sum up a lot of the thoughts, feelings and intentions and answered by saying, “The goal is
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Guest Post by Emily Hill I recently quit my career in market research to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Justice at Kilns College. I had been involved with justice issues and I considered myself a fairly socially aware person, but I wanted to learn more; I wanted to do more. In just a
I am often asked who has had the greatest theological influence on me. As far as my Theology of Justice, it’s pretty easy. No modern thinker has had a greater impact on the foundations of my thinking in justice, shalom and the beauty of God than Nicholas Wolterstorff. He is one of America’s preeminent Christian
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I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I think gratitude – thankfulness, appreciation, value – has a very underrated foundational role in virtue and vice. Legalism, the kind of self-righteous Christianity that is all about control, guilt, power, pride and perfection, really has beneath it a sick and hollowed out sense of gratitude. Grace begets
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President Obama’s “Pastor-in-Chief” (TIME Magazine) and longtime spiritual advisor, Joshua DuBois led the White House faith-based initiative during Obama’s first term, and served with the President for years before that. Joshua writes a regular religion column for The Daily Beast and has authored several cover stories for Newsweek magazine. Joshua graduated from Boston University and
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